Initially, I thought this story of the narrator and his pal Carroll in Provence was just a ghost story. After all, they wander off and meet a young woman and her aunt, whom the travelers later find out have been dead for years. Ghosts, right? After all, Oliver Onions is known for his ghost stories. Unless the travelers were actually in the ladies’ house of long ago, and proof of their visits surfaces.
—Michael Main
He paused, looking at my cigarette case, which he had taken into his hand again. He smiled at some recollection or other, and it was a minute or so before he continued.

Variants

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  1. “The Cigarette Case” by Oliver Onions, in Widdershins (Martin Secker, 1911).
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Oliver Onions